A well known figure in the local golf community has received a promotion. Ed Ryan is now the head golf professional at the prestigious Cabot Cliffs golf course in Inverness. Ryan had been the Associate PGA of Canada Professional and Guest Services Supervisor at Cabot Cliffs sister course, Cabot Links for the past year.

Ryan spent almost three decades as Manager of Golf Operations and Head Golf Professional at the Antigonish Golf Club.

Golf Digest says Cabot Cliffs offers a variety, ranging from sand dunes in its southernmost holes to ocean cliffs to the north and bits of pine-lined Scottish Highlands in between. The publication says Cabot Links is not a natural links, but it plays like one, with muted dunes, austere bunkering and gentle, generous greens

Officials with the Cabot Links Golf Course say construction will begin soon on a new public access path at the north end of Inverness Beach. With the new path , local residents and tourists will have direct access to the beach without crossing the golf course. Cabot Links has worked with a variety of groups on developing a safe suitable path, including the community, the Inverness Development Association, the province and the Inverness County Municipality

Cabot Links General Manager Andrew Alkenbrack says completing the project is a top priority.

Golf season is upon us, and one of the countries hottest destinations has a big year ahead of them. Cabot Links and Cliffs are known internationally as being two of the best courses to play for serious golf enthusiasts.

Andrew Alkenbrack is the General Manager of the two courses in Inverness. He says that the two courses had a great winter, and looked great on opening day.

The two Inverness golf courses are ranked in the top 5 for Canadian courses for 2017 and 18. Cabot Cliffs and Links are ranked first and fifth respectively. The ranking comes from Golf Digest, where they listed the top 30 courses nationwide. The Cape Breton Highland Links in Ingonish Beach made the list as well in the 15th spot.

The co-founder and Managing Director of the Cabot Links and Cabot Cliffs Golf Courses in Inverness, Ben Cowan-Dewar, is stepping down as chair of Tourism Nova Scotia. Cowan-Dewar has accepted the appointment as the chair of the Federal Crown Corporation Destination Canada.

He was appointed chair of the Nova Scotia Tourism Agency in January, 2014 when it was structured as a special operating agency. Cowan-Dewar led the group’s move to a Crown Corporation in 2015. Under his leadership, a new tourism strategy was created with a goal to increase tourism revenues to four billion dollars by 2024. The province has just come off a great year for tourism, with visitation up eight per cent.

Irene d’Entremont of Yarmouth will serve as interim chair until a replacement is found. She has served as vice-chair.

A leading publication has listed the Cabot Links golf course in Inverness as one the best courses to play this season.

Golf magazine has published its Gold List of Premier Golf Resorts. The magazine has two lists of premier courses to play; Gold and Platinum. Cabot Links made its gold list of courses. The publication says Cabot Links is clearly the “most exciting newcomer” to have earned Gold Medal status this year.

It is yet another honour for Cabot Links and its sister course in Inverness, Cabot Cliffs. Earlier this year, the two courses were named to Golf Digest’s list of the top 100 courses in the world.

Cabot Cliffs was listed at number 19; Cabot Links was 93rd in the world.

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